ANTCLABS BLTouch : Auto Bed Leveling Sensor/to be a Premium 3D Printer (with 2M Extension Cable Set)

Included connectors? Useless. Documentation? What documentation. What a massive waste of time and money. Going back to leveling myself this is obnoxious.

I dont normally write a negative review (Can you look at my other posts?), but this thing literally ruined 3D printing for me... for a while. My short story: I bought the Ender 3 V2, and I was having a blast with it! 220x220 was an AWESOME upgrade from my MPSM! I decided I would make things even easier on myself, and get the BLTouch! Big mistake.. HUGE. Dudes & Dudetts I havent been able to print SINCE I installed it. It literally adds so much more complication to the mix. I LOVE to tinker. I figured If I level the bed myself and get good prints, this thing should make me a rockstar! WRONG. You start having to mess with offsets and meshes and all sorts of junk that adds SOOO much more confusion to the 3D printer. Unneeded confusion. Ive tried since I purchased this thing.. and I just cant get it. Reddit posts, YT, forums. Nothing. Well, tonight I needed something printed, and Im dead in the water, so I removed the BLTouch. I leveled the bed with a piece of printer paper... and BAM! Printing like a dream again after about 4 months. I mean even if I was doing something wrong... how would I be able to be back up and running again with a firmware flash and a quick level? If you can take anything from this rant, its the very fact that something like this device should make printing easier? Right? Do yourself a favor, save yourself some time. Just level the bed with paper and keep on printing! Thanks for listening to my story, I take solace in the fact that I might save you some money.

Awesome works perfect G29 #if need height is way off check steps per mm etc before G32, 31, etc. Bed crash means your off G32 M651 G31 M374 M500

Bought this to replace the sensor that came stock with my CR10s pro. it came bent. I didnt try to straighten it but it does seem to be working

Setup is a bit difficult. I had Jyers custom firmware and it did not like the BLTouch at all. However I wont immediately fault the BLTouch. Using the BLT version of the default firmware seems to work OK.

This is a great addition to my 3-D printer. All you need is to print a downloadable bracket for it. It works fantastic and has really saved me a lot of time in having to manually level the bed. I highly recommend it for any 3-D printer. The software to run this be I’ll touch is readily available on the web.

The most useful addition to a 3D Printer. If you are using the ender 5, a 1M extension is a must.